Word: allegro
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...Galimir. The second movement ("Adagio ed Espressivo") exploited the high register of the violin, giving the music a strongly passionate flavor; after a while, however, the emphasis on extreme registers began to wear (at least on these untutored ears) and passion passed over into hysteria. The last movement, ("Allegro appasionato.") was a curiously dance-like finale with its predominantly triple meter (this, too, is a bit of heritage from the musical past) and was quite lighthearted compared to the general severity of the piece. Throughout the Quintet composer Sessions demonstrated a fantastic command of string emsemble sounds and effects...
...Spences' bicycle-built-for-two was ineligible for the first prize -- a sleek Allegro touring bike donated by the Bicycle Exchange. The only other tandem entered in the special cycle category puffed acriss the line a half hour later, in last place...
Girls con Brio. "Every issue of Playboy ," Hefner has said, "must be paced like a symphony." While there may be a scherzo of cartoons, a largo of literature, a rondo of reportage, the allegro in each addition is still the girls, and molto con brio. Although girl pictures take up less than 10% of the pages, they remain the main motif. The style for the centerfold Playmate was set by the maestro himself. He chose a rather average though well-endowed girl named Charlene Drain who worked in his subscription department. She said the department needed an Addressograph machine. Sure...
...Allegro. He is born on Musikalnyi Peruelok - Music Street - in Kiev. His uncle is a music critic, his mother a brilliant amateur pianist. At the age of ten he memorizes the piano scores of Tannhäuser, Lohengrin, Parsifal. Clearly, little Vladimir is a musical prodigy...
...Introduction and Allegro for strings, which opened the program, is typically eupbonious and harmless Elgar, but lacking the distinction of his masterly character studies. Considering the short spans and redundancy of the thematic material, the excitement and coherence which Munch created was especially impressive...